The president () missed two appointments in recent days, after attending one. He stopped going to and did not speak via videoconference, as planned in his agenda, in a ceremony focused on family farming.
The press office of Palácio do Planalto stated that Lula did not speak via videoconference at the event on family farming, held this Monday (27) in the São Paulo city of Andradina, due to technical problems.
In the case of the PT event, participation would be in person last Sunday (26). Lula is often groupied and hugged at PT events. People close to the president stated that there was concern, for example, that a supporter would touch the surgery dressing and hinder the recovery.
Lula’s agenda also includes another appointment via videoconference this Monday. This involves the inauguration of a radiotherapy center in Presidente Prudente (SP), at 3pm. It is possible that the president will not participate in this event either.
On Saturday (24), Lula removed a lesion from his scalp, a less serious and more common type of skin cancer, and treated pain in his right hand. In 2011, the PT member was treated for cancer in the larynx and .
The President of the Republic, who is 80 years old, will seek re-election in October. Lula to the electorate so as not to give rise to questions about his physical capacity to govern.
It is common, for example, for the president to publish images of his exercise routine and go for short runs during his public engagements. Allies of the head of government say that, in internal meetings, he demonstrates quick thinking and ability to concentrate.
In September 2025, Lula made a more explicit gesture to demonstrate vitality: in honor of the 95th anniversary of the Ministry of Education, in Brasília, and ran at different times – including the steepest climb on the route.
Lula was hospitalized at other times during his current term.
In December 2024, he underwent a head surgery to treat an intracranial hemorrhage. He rushed from Brasília to São Paulo to undergo the operation, after feeling ill while working at Palácio do Planalto.
The hemorrhage had been caused by a blow to the head suffered by the president about two months earlier. He later said he sat on a stool while cutting his nails in the bathroom. “It was a very strong blow, a lot of blood came out. I thought I had cracked the brain, cracked the hoof,” the president said at the time.
At the end of January this year, the PT member underwent a . The treatment was carried out in Brasília.
Still in the first year of his current term, Lula underwent surgery for . The PT member had been complaining since the 2022 election campaign about severe pain in the region, but he was postponing treatment because of political commitments. Lula also underwent, during the same hospitalization as the hip surgery, a .
